Time to go!

Count down 3 hours and counting. Off to Paris, then Hendaye. Just hope this throat thing is not Strep.

Also hoping I don't get stopped by the Border Guards for importing drugs.

GPS Joy!!!

I got my Spot Connect today!  Whoo Hoo!

http://www.findmespot.com/en/index.php?cid=116

I set it up and set up a link on this web page. 

Now to send my first message.

10 days to go. . .

10 days to go and I have too much to carry. Have to spend the weekend cutting it back drastically!

Leave April 28th

Vacation approved!  May 1st to June 12th.  Whoo Hoo!

Found a great deal to Paris.  KLM  - YVR to CDG through AMS for $895 each!

Vacation booked, ticket booked!  We are on our way!

Spring 2011

Timing?  Do we go March/April or June/July?  Cold Rain vs. Hot Rain?

The weather varies by the day.  We are walking in a Oceanic Temperate Zone, so rain gear at the ready!

We vote for hot, we can deal with the heat, but cold and wet isn't nice.

 

A plan is made?!

Sylvia had been asking for years, when will you do the Camino with me.  I told her I was not interested in the Camino Frances, but once I started my research  - I discovered the Camino Norte and was sold! 

After a post Olympic lunch with Sylvia I walked back into the office and said that Sylvia thought I should take 6 weeks off and walk across Spain.  Suprisingly, or not, my bosses said "Yes - you should do it!"

And a plan was made!

How it began . . .

In 2005 my friend Sylvia invited me on a walk.  We walked along the dyke in Richmond.  A lovely path that I had not seen before.  We walked from the Airport to Steveston Village.  While we walked she told me about the Camino de Santiago a pilgrimage she had read about and was very interested in taking.  It was interesting and the walking intrigued me, but I had never thought about travelling to Spain.  So I went home and the thought rolled around in my head, and I did what I do . . . research!